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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22
Items About Peoplo.

E. L. Harper has donned the stripes at
the Ohio penitentiary. He has been as.
signed to q position as clerk in the Office
OF the secretary.
Jim keenan, gets to Chicago and roasts
John Barnes, Tommy Warren and the
whole crowd that had anything to do with
the Minneapolis prize fight.
New York Special: When Jack Demp.
sey walked into the office OF the Police
Gazette to receive his check for $4,000
and the diamond studded belt, no one
would have supposed that he had fought
battle Of forty five rounds with 80 good
a man as Jack Reagan. There was not q
mark on his face. He limped slightly from
the squirting inflicted by spike in the toe
OF Reagan's shoes. Mr.. Fox handed Demp.
sey $4,000 and box containing Kilrain's
colors.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22

A committee on the eleventh cen.
sus, to be taken in 1890, is one of the
first things proposed in the new con.
gress. All OF the reports of the tenth
census have not yet been published,
and some OF them will probably be
dropped out altogether when work on
the eleventh census begins. One of the
things the committee should consider
IS how to get census returns promptly
published, and "boil down. a great
deal of useless matter.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22
Foreign News Nuggeta,

It IL reported that tho fight between
Sullivan and Mitchell will take place in
the large farm clubhouse in Kent. Tickets
for the fight are selling at f55 each.
The prince OF Wales has ordered q very
handsome gold watch to be made and in.
scribed: ITO John L. Sullivan; Boston,
y; 8: A. !; from Albert Edward, prince OF
The doctors in examining tho German
crown prince discovered symptoms oifresh
growth and an increase in tho swelling. A
special consultation OF medical experts was
determined upon. DR.. Mackenzie will at.
tend at the request of the crown prince.
The new cabinet is moderate Repub-
lican body. Tirard is opposed to tho
autonomy OF Paris and the separation OF
commander OF the Eighth army corps,
with headquarters at Bourges. He dis
tinguishsd himself in the Tunisiau cam.
paIgn.
6heehy, NJ. r., arrested under the crimes
act, was at Dublin sentenced to three
months with hard labor. Sheehy was
admitted to bail. Upon being released he
was arrested on q charge Of having partic.
ipated in a meeting at Clonmelt. Bail
was refused. The prisoner WAS taken to
Clonmelt Jail. Father Matthew Ryan will
be arriagned under the crimes act at Bally.
enet. - :.
Lord Randolph Churchill made q speech
at Stockport, England. He denied that
the government was reluctant to meet
parliament. On tho contrary, he said.
much had happened during tho recess OF
which the government might DO proud.
The prospects Of tho .Unionists were brieht
and promising; their position since the
failure Of tho Round Table negotiations
had become well defined.
The court ofarraignment has pronounc.
cd that NO case has been established
against N. Wilson, NJ Grevy's son.in.lav.
in connection with tho decoration ecan.
dals. The charges against him have there.
fore been dropped. Tho charges against
Grasnon and Goron have also been dis.
missed. Mime. Imousin Aas Resn mplctsd
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22

Judge Sabin, OF the United States
District Court, sitting at Galveston,
Tex, has dealt the barbarous law Of
that state which levies an annual tax
upon travelling statesmen blow that
will doubtless insure drummers from
other States immunity in Texas hence.
forth. He decides emphatically that
the law is an unconstitutional at.
tempt to interfere with Interstate com.
MERGE, taking ground already occupi.
ed by the Supreme Court of the Unit.
ed States.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22
An Old Deacon's Snake Yarn.

An Old 0e0c0n70 wake VosJs.
Atlantis Constitution.
Taylor Strickland, tho negro who
killed the horned snake some time
ago, killed another . few days ago.
q mate to the first, and near the
same place. It measures nine feet.
had bull-like bead nearly ~
large q calls and q four-inch horn on
the end of its tail. An old darky
standing by when the description was
given, said:
..Dat vas 'er mighty small snake Of
its kind. l killed ono down in the
Chattaoochee bottom dat mezered
inches. 1t had deadeued all de tim
Der on bot sides er river fu'rz yo'
could see. Flow dat was or biggest
sanke ever foun' in dis State"
"Humph! Yer knows might little
bout snakes ef yo' drinks dat" said
another whlte-haired old darkey, who
looked disguised at such q weak recit-
al of reptile stories. II kill or snake
one time down in South Georgia what
was fifteen feet long und BIGGER 'roun
en- my body; it jess eat all de hogs On
chickens un young calves in de settle
ment. One day it cum to de skeol.
house door I'm looked in at do winder,
un dat skool was de quickes' absolved
yo' cher did see. After dat all de
white folks un nigegers turned out wild
guns I'm dogs, un sarchel till dey
found him. He was tryin' ter drag an
OK he'd kill'd down inter an old we'll
wen dey shot him."
''Dar wus er black snake run dis mig
ger one time," remarked q darky who
had been an attentive listener to the
foregoing tales. II was 6shin' in the
Hightower, I'm havin' mighty good
luck, when l see long pole er sorter
foatin' down stream: we'll dat didn't
caision no motifs. l jis fish on. but
mighty soon dat pole stick his head
up right dar under me, un, golly! it
wur no pole, it wur a snake wild er
head as longs my arm. jes' jump
back er bout fifteen feet un started
across field I'm fences wild dat snake
lookin' over my shoulder all de time;
he'd sort turn up he head az if AKIN
why didn't run. He teas me dat
way e1bout four mile, I'm l happened
to run pas er big sycamore tree, un er
snake wur so bury lookin' upin my face
he didn't notis de tree, un jis run right
up to de top. When I look back dar
be wus, his head pintin' straight up,
waiting for me ter come down."
us yo'un a member aw de chu'ch.
sonny?" asked the old darby.
eyes. sab; Use der deacon. Why"
''Kase dar wur some feat'ers in dat
na-ritive dat seemed kind or faction.
able. But if you's er deacon, know
in course it's right"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22
G. A. r. AlDES-DE.CAMP.
Commander-in-ChiefRea Announ-
ces Long List Of Aides for North

commander~In-Ch Chief Rea Announ-
ces a Long List ofA'des for North
western States.
announcing the following appointments of
aides de-canp in the Northwestern states
and territories:
Minnesota-Louis A. Grant, Minneapo.
lis; Luciue +. Hubbard, Red Wing Martin
j. Severance, Mankato; John II. Murphy,
st. Paul; S. NJ. Emery, Lake City; A. II.
Reid. Glencoe; William H. Moulton, Elk
River; j.; W. Bishop, St. Paul; George w.
Grant, Minneapolis; L. NJ. LANCE, Worth
Campbell, Litchfeld; E. A. Tyler. Duluth:
r. r. Moore, Spring Valley; Frank Bill
ings. Winona; J. w. George, Minneapolis;
H. NJ. Blaisdell. Faribault: j. N. Searle,
saltwater; Thomas Montgomery, St.
Peter; w. L. Vining, Fergus Falls; j. J..
McCardy, St. Paul; NJ. II. Sessions, Mime.
apolis; j. P. McClelland, Mankato; A..
Barto, Sank Center; B. +. Zarocken, Crook.
ston.
Iowa-Buren R. Sherman, Waterloo:
Joseph Given, Des Moines; J. S. Woolson,
Mt. Pleasant; John H. Campbell, Des
Moines; +: w. Hurwood, Cedar Rapids; J..
F. Merry. Manchester; A. H. Gillette. Mt.
Vernon; G. w. Blake, Charlton; Richard
Root. Keokuk; Lyman J. Adair, Anamosa
W. ID. Stiles, Guthrie Center; E. A. Guilbert,
Dubuque; Charles G. Curlow, Sioux City;
Jerome Burbank, Allison; ]. W. Alexander,
Hamburg; E. r. Hutchins Des Moines; w.
A. Wareham, Plymouth; John F. Consign.
~, Audubon.
Wisconsin-Georgs L. Robinson, MIL
waukes; Newton Peters. Milwaukee; n. b.
Harshaw, Oshkosh; George S. Race, Port
age City; George A. Leeding, Neilsvllle; L.
9: Thomas. Eau Claire; James r. Spencer,
Waukesha.
Dakota-S. H. lumber. Aberdeen;S. X. Nc.
Ginnis, jamestown; John Is. Dennis, Yank.
ton.
Montana-Robert E. Fisk. Helena: p.
Hoopers. 1rvington; George W. Shaw. Hel.
ena.
A COMMITTEES was also appointed in &C
cordance with resolution OF the Twenty.
first national encampment to cooperate
with a similar committee from Tennessee
Ia securing an appropriate memorial for
sohn A. Logan. The committee are:
Russell A. Alser. Detroit, Mich; H. H.
Thomas, Chicago. H.; Z. P. Tyler, Culver.
ton, Nd; William Warner. Ksnsas City,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22

The strike of the miners in the Le
high, Pennsylvania, coal district, is
developing new phase. 1t has been
given out that 1000 miners from Bel.
GUM are to be brought over to take
the place of the strikers. This has
stirred up a feeling among the idle
men that may be found dangerous.
They promise resistance, saying that
If the foreigners come blood will flow;
Tor they might as we'll die fighting as
die OF starvation. Importing foreign
labor into this country for such specit.
&c purposes had better be omitted.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22

Secretary Whitney's report recon-.
mends the construction of five new
vessels-two armor-clad ships, to
cost, exclusive of armament, not
more than $4,000, 900, ono to be
built by contract and one in the navy
yards, and three more fast cruisers Of
the highes. type. He says that in six
years only four OF the present cruising
ships will remain serviceable. In
other words, the old navy will have
disappeared. Encouragement for tor.
pedo experiments is recommended,
and the pneumatic gun spoken highly
OF. The secretary says although wa
have spent from $50, 1000, 900 to $75,.
100000 on the turreted monitors
since tho war, it has been merely
wasted. A first class modern iron.
clad could dispose OF fleet of them.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22
Not in session.
SENATE.

Senator Butler has introduced bill to
license railway conductors engaged in in.
terstate commerce. 1t provides that no
railroad shall employ any person as q
railway conductor upon any train engaged
In interstate commerce unless the person
IL licensed as provided by this act.
A bill was introduced by Senator Coke
courts. It provides that the circuit and
district courts of the United States shall
not take original cognizance of any suit
OF q civil nature between q corporation
organized under the laws OF any state and
citizen OF any state in which the corpo-
ration at tho time OF action may have
been carrying on any business, except in
cases arising under the patent or copyright
laws.
Senator spooner has introduced in the
senate q bill to help out the act passed
late last session, donating SIS. 900 to the
states for the establishment of expert
mental agricultural stations, which act
failed OF its purpose by reason OF the fail.
ure OF congress to make the necessary ap.
propriations.
Senator Palmer has introduced q bill to
increase to 100000 tho limit Of tho
appropriation for public building at De.
. The bill introduced by Senator George
to protect employees and servants engaged
in foreign and interstate commeree. dc.
clares that they shall be entitled to re-
cover damages for any injury sustained
through tho careless, negligent or unskilful
act or omission OF their employers or
masters, or OF their fellow servants on.
gagged on tho same service.
Senator Hale introduced q bill to pro.
vide that any officer placed on the retired
list after go years asrvice BY reason of a
physical defect, which was not Q disauali.
fication at the time his original entry into
tho service, shall DO held to b retired for
disability incident to tho service.
.- HOUSE.
Not In seaaion
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22

The bill in the Senate, introduced
by Senator Farwell OF Illinois, pro
hibits the immigration of convicts
paupers, idiots and insane PERSONS
all who arrive must exhibit certificates
from the United States consul that
they are not of the above classes
and have means to live for six months
Others who arrive shall be returned,
and masters OF vessels punished 70,
bringing them.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22
the INTERSTATELAW.
Senator Cullom to Present Amend
me nts Whereby He Expecte to In
crease the Efficacy of the Act.


Senator Cullon,, chairman of tho inter.
state commerce committee, has prepared
amendments to the interstate law which he
will present to the senate at an early day.
Those amendments embody the most i'm
portant suggestions that have been made
rs to defects in tho law. including the rec
concentrations OF the interstate commits
sioners. Following is a synopsis OF the
more important provisions:
80 as to make the act apply
to express companies, sleeping car
companies. drawing room cars, palace car
companies. stock car companies, tank car
companies and any other companies, as
sociations or persons furnishing for public
use upon railroads, cars or other instru-
mentalities for the transportation OF pas.
sengers or property" This is intended to
include every possible monopoly, like the
Standard Oil company. which uses tho
rails. The words ''or other carriers"
are inserted twice in the fifth
section. SO as to prohibit not
only pooling between different railroads,
but between different railroads and other
carriers. In the sixth section which relates
to the publication of rates, tho provisions
with respect to the advance and reduction
in rates are repeated SO as TO apply spe-
officially to joint through rates. This
aluenuHenC ID proposed because the com.
mission express in their report some doubt
as to whether these provisions do so ap-
ply. As to the short haul provision it is
provided that where complaint is made
against two or more carriers for violating
it and the violations occur between
points on the road of one only,
that road only shall be held liable Tor
the violation. An addition to section Is,
which relates to compensation for dam
ages, is proposed, that when a complain.
ant is seeking to recover damages the car.
rier may file with the commission it's
consent that the commission may pass
upon the question of damages, and tho de-.
cision of the commission shall stand as q
judgment, which may be enforced by execu-
ton by United States marshal in the
same manner or as judgments of the Unit.
ed States circuit court are enforced. II
payment il not made, the complainant
may proceed in any United States court OF
competent Jurisdiction to recover damages,
and the report Of the commission shall be
prima facie evidence of tho TACT found.
Provision is also made to take the COM
mission out OF the Jurisdiction OF the in
terror department., and to require it to
report direct to congress. The object is
to make the commission independent OF
any administration.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22

The architects of the great Audi.
forum building, now in process oil
erection in the city OF Chicago, say
that the spacious hall in which the
National Republican Convention is to
be held next June. will beyond any
doubt be in readiness by that time.
The hall will accommodate at least
10000 people.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22
Rotary Steam Snow shovels.

The Northern Pacific will this year put
into use along its line four new rotary
steam snow shovels. These rotary shovels
have never been used in tho Northwest,
and while in the nature of an experiment,
have been thoroughly tried elsewhere, and
MI. Small, superintendent of motive pow
or and machinery, Of the Northern Pacific,
has Witnessed their work. The apparatus
somewhat resembles box car containing
q stationary engine, which works the
shovel. On the front of the car is the 70.
tary shovel which gathers up the snow,
and it can be run a. fast az three hundred
revolutions per minute. The enow passes
back and is expelled from spout on top
Of the car, being thrown far to one side.
The apparatus is pushed by q locomo tive,
and can 60 through snow drift six OF
seven feet deep at the rate of fifteen OF
twenty miles an hour. Three OF these
shovels will be used on the mountains Of
the weetern end. and one will be kept on
the Dakota division.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22
In Southern Illinois there was q
heavy rain in May, 1885. Another
fell on July 8, and that is all the rain
that section had in nineteen months.
During his illness the German crown
prince has been much remembered by
the Jews on account of his noble de-
tense of them in Germany in recent
years.

The New York Sun demands a
change in the color of the 2-cent post
age stamp from the present ''crude,
pale, cold, sickly and humiliating
green," to the former reddish brown,
and the demand is backed by every.
body who uses postage stamps.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22
Death Of q Catholic Mlssionarv,

New York Special: Father John J: Rior.
dan, tho famous Castle Garden missionary,
died here Of congestion OF the lungs. Father
Riordan was known all over tho country
through his efforts to aid immigrants ar.
irving in this country. He waa an assist
ant priest in one OF the down
town churches years ago, when he con.
ceived the idea of homo in the
garden to protect unsophisti
Gated immigrants from the sharks who in.
Tested that locality. He established a
mission and chapel near the garden, and
bis work was 90 satisfactory that the
Catholic authorities made parish thsrs
Tor him, and many wealthy people contrib.
uted literally to his work. Father Mor.
dan was known to every Immigrant who
has arrived In this country for many years.
death 10 greatly regretted. He was born in
this city, and was only thirty seven years
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22
Private Bankers Of Minnesota.

About fifty private bankers of Miuneso-
to met in st. Paul a few days ago, when
the Minnesota Bankers association was
organized. There are at present seventy.
eight bankers. representing the same num-
Der OF banks, members OF the association.
The association adopted constitution
and bylaws similar to the American
Bankers association.
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year.
President, c. D. Griffith, Brown county;
vice president. H. r. Wells, Fillmore coun-
ty; secretary, 4. r. Smith. LIE Sueur county;
treasurer, w. B. Parsons, Dodge county;
executive council, II. B. Strait, Scott
county; G. H. Ross, Brown county; Mar.
stearns county; NJ: Doran, LIE Sueur coun.
ty; E. D. Dyer, Olmsted county; L. r.
Mayer. Chippewa county.
One OF the objects of the association is to
protect the private bankers against tho
law passed last winter, which in brief pro.
vides:
No person or persons engaged in the bust
ness of banking in this state, not subject
to the suspension of the bank examiner,
shall make use OF any office sign having there
on any artificial or corporate name, nor
shall such person make use of or circulate
any letter.heads, blank receipts, ETC., hav.
ing thereon corporate name.
Many OF the private bankers Of the state
havo been doing business under corporate
names, as the Bank OF lie Sueur." This
law will compel them to drop the corpor.
ate name and do business after tho first OF
the year as "Doran & Smith, bankers" or
to incorporate under the state law with a
capital according to the population OF tho
town or city in which tho bank is located.
The law is claimed to he unconstitutional,
for the resson that only ninety members
Of the legislature voted for it, and that it
requires two-thirds vote to change the
banking laws OF the state. Further, that
tho state had no authority to confiscate
the stationery and other property of tho
banks. rs tho law practically meant it
made up for decision by the courts.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22

for the costs Of the trial. The senate has
proclaimed tho expulsion Of Gen. d'And.
lau on the ground that ho 70 liable to ar.
rest II hs attempts to sit in the senate.
The ST. John IN. By Globes open advo.
cacy Of immediate annexation OF Canada
to the United States % the simplest and
best way to settle al difficulties bstwssn
Great Britain and the great republic has
produced great sensation in political cir
cles in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
The Globe 10 owned and edited BY John
Ellis, q member Of the Canadian parlia-
ment for St. John City and for many
yearn ito representative in the New Bruins
wick legislature, and ono Of tho recognised
and ablest Of tho Liberal party in Eastern
Canada.
President Carnot's message was road to
the French chambers. He says: His ap
pointment clearly proclaims that parlia,
ment has resolved to put aside all causes
vital interests Of the country and lesitt
mate influence abroad calls for representa-.
tives to the nation and animated by pat
riotism. The government hopes to assure
to tho country steady progress, and prao
tical reforms calculated to encourage in.
dustry. strength in credit and produce a
revival OF business. The government de.
sires to give consideration to measures al.
.cSoIu6 AoOOIs PuOuC uvSleuO 6uO uaVdOn8l
thrift, and it especially wishes to study
and improve the financial condition and
simplify the administrative and judicial
systems.
United Ireland declares that the govern.
ment has secured Mgr. Persico's aid in 70.
straining the Irish priests from Offering op.
position to the government who a. an
equivalent will endow Catholic universi.
ty. receive a papal envoy and send an ON.
bassador to the viticaa. A mass meeting
OF the dissenting ministers of England held
at Manchester protested against tho &c
ton OF tho British government in relation
to Ireland Justin Mccarthy, speaking at
Hull recently, said that before the last
election Lord Caravan negotiated with
the ParnelliteA with the object of oustine
Gladstone. The negotiations were con.
Quoted solely by Lord Caravan and him.
self. The former agreed to the stipulation
that the Conservatives should be prepared
to coneede any measure OF home rule de.
sired by Parnell and himself. The negotia.
lions collapsed because Parnell considered
Gladstone the best man to deal with.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22

Mrs. Jefferson Davis is said to have
remarked to q gentleman at Macon
recently that she never, from tho fra t
believed in the success of the confed-
eracy in the war, but always told Mr..
Davis that defeat was only . matter
of time.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22
Not In session

William H. 0akiord, merchant oiPhil.
adelphia, has bssn advised Of the loee Of
tho ship Alfred Watts, upon which his son,
A. B. Osk&ord. had taken passass for Jap.
~,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-22
The Record Of Casualties.

The Record OF Casualties.
W. P. Sabey, Wholesale hats, and w. E,
Barton, cigar manufacturer, OF Syracuse,
N. Y, suffered $45, 900 loss by fire.
At st. Augustine, Fla, fro broke out in
Hamblin's hardware store. The flames
spread and destroyed q number OF tho
buildings on tho south side OF tho plaza.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-29
Settling Down.

Tid-Bits: Little Nellie There, now,
we're married. and | want you to 60
right out and order some-some coal
and some wood and some sugar and
some-some-Oh! yea. some wedding
cake. | forgot about that.
Little Willie-Yes. mother-I mean,
my dear, I'll 60 right off; but you muss
kiss me first.
Little Nellie-kiss you?
Little Willie OF course.
Little Nellie Why, YOU great big
simpleton, you, married folks don't
kiss.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-29
Miss Booth. the editor of Harner,s

Miss Booth, the editor of Harper's
Bazaar, expresses often her partially
for household pets, but in practice,
carries out her belieI in their useful
ness. Her fine Maltese cat, n snowy
combination Of mouse-color and white,
appears in the parlors ut her receptions
with II frill of white embroidery around
his neck, and seems unawed at the DIS
linguistic | guests.